Worship & Sermon Archive

It seems absolutely fitting that the week we reflect on God's promises to us, we are led in worship by the kids, youth, and families of our church.

Mark doesn't promise too much, to start. He is living at a time of bad news. Very bad news. And, in the middle of that, he has experienced good news!

No, it's not that we're so anxious for 2020 to be over that we're deluding ourselves into a magical fast-forward.

On this Thanksgiving Sunday, we want to consider one of the most important of all Christian virtues, gratitude.

The Parable of the Talents, the lectionary text for Sunday, may be a familiar one to you.  Perfect for Commitment Sunday...

'What are you worried about?' I asked in an email to the church community.  And I got back a flood of responses.

This week I have gotten in touch with the huge sense of loss that comes from thinking about the staggering loss of life of the past 8 months.

This week, we finally reach the end of Moses' story. After 40 years of wandering in the desert, he dies just as the Promised Land is within reach.

Jesus said, "Where your treasure is there will your heart be also."  Whether we are people of faith or not, There is always something we worship...

Our wilderness wandering continues this week. We find ourselves, like the Israelites, desperate for a destination and not knowing how to summon it.

Stories like this one, of the Israelites complaining about lack of food, lack of water, lack of leadership, scholars call 'murmuring stories'.

We'll pick up our story from last week when the Israelites crossed the Red Sea and meet them on the other side where they struggle to see how God...

That line is actually not in the Bible, although it's certainly implied. After ten chapters detailing as many plagues...

Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the same as I give to you. Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me?

In 1706, the hymnist Isaac Watts, wrote the lyric to “God is the Name My Soul Adores,” telling the story of Moses confronting the burning bush.

Peter got out of the boat! When I read the story of Jesus walking across the water to get to the disciples, that's the part that gets to me.

The disciples woke Jesus up, saying, 'Rabbi, don't you care that we are perishing?' - We find ourselves in the middle of a storm in a very small boat.

This weekend we will revisit the story of Hagar and "El Roi"--"The God who sees" through the lens of #BLM and #JusticeforBreonnaTaylor.

This week we're not talking about anything big. We're talking about the Kin-dom of Heaven. And that, Jesus tells us, is very small. No bigger than a mustard seed.

It is clear that whatever follows this pandemic will be different from the world we left behind. But what kind of world will it be?